good morning. welcome to the continuing live super tuesday coverage. here in new york. 2:00 a.m. in the east. 11:00 p.m. out west. we're live all night here on. moe polls are closed. there are people in lines in california. results still uncertain in that key state at this hour. in a sweeping reset of the 2020 democratic rates. former vice president biden campaign making a come back

including a projected win in texas. for the moment taken the lead from sanders in total delegates. sanders is holding his own. the big question of california continues to loom. while in los angeles hours ago, biden thanked supporters for bringing his campaign newfound momentum. >> knocked down, counted out, left behind. this is your campaign. just a few days ago the press declared the campaign dead. and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. super tuesday it would be over. it maybe over for the other guy. folk, we can do this. let's get something straight,

wall street didn't build this country, you built this country. the middle class built this country. and unions pilt built the middle class. our campaign reflected diversity of the party and the nation. that's how it should be. because we need to bring everybody along. everybody. we want to nominee who will beat donald trump. also, keep nancy pelosi the speaker of the house. win back the united states senate. if that's what you want, join us. you want a nominee who is a democrat. a lifelong democrat. a proud democrat. obama/biden democrat. join us. >> and from his home state of vermont senator sanders projecting with quote absolute confidence that he will be win the democratic nomination.

>> when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn't be done. tonight i tell you with absolute confidence, we're going to win the democratic nomination. and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of the country. no matter what happens, if this campaign and jon what will happen, if it comes out to be a campaign in which we have one candidate who was standing up for the working class and the middle class, we're going to win that election. if we have another candidate who

has received contributions from at least 60 billionaires. we're going to win that election. if there is another candidate in the race who is spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, we're going to tell him in america you cannot buy elections. >> ok here's where things stand at this hour. two states where results are being calculated. projecting that california the biggest of them is still too early to call. now projecting within the past half hour joe biden wins texas. one of the super tuesday surprises. maine remains too close to call. southern united states. joe biden will win in north carolina. and in virginia, alabama goes to biden as well. same in tennessee.

the state of arkansas won by joe biden and biden is projected to win in elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts and sanders neighboring state. of maine. meanwhile projecting sanders will win his home state vermont. and in the west colorado went to sanders. utah is going to sanders. oklahoma went to joe biden. and the lone u.s. territory today voting. goes to bloomberg. with a strong showing there by hawaii congresswoman gabbard. 1991 that's needed to get the nomination on the first ballot. at the moment joe biden leads sanders. we haven't put california into the mix yet. we mention california is still too early to call. according to political unit. big drama playing out that could be contributing to that. i want to go to joling kent.

what's going on in california? is this a counting issue. >> that is certainly not the case. 415 delegates here in california are stake. there were very long lines in l.a. county. a lot of the issues at what we know now is that the new voting centers that have been put into place have eliminated traditional polling places ended up resulting in lots of crowds and same day voter registration contributing to the long lines in l.a. county. here in orange county we're seeing the opposite side of the coin. we are seeing all of the votes they have been cast. we were at uc irvine and it was busy. lines for a couple hours for the students. other places people were able to

cast their vote at a good clip. being able to get in and out. one of the major gripes for the voters was actually people who wanted to change their vote because the candidate dropped out of the race. of course you can't vote twice anywhere. they were unable to do that. we saw at irvine an influx of voters supporting sanders. out in the suburbs irvine city hall we saw moderate democrats. orange county of course famous for once being red turning blue. back in 2018. it will be interesting to see the ballots once they are counted how they will move. will this orange county area the more moderate democratic strongholds here will they go for a sanders. will that population actually vote for that kind of nominee. i want to show you something special. take a look over here. if you can zoom in here. watching orange county election officials actually collect the

very votes on v drives. voting drives. usbs and they are securely being transported by election volunteers who are coming in and will be counting this vote. bringing in the paper ballots and transported through a secure system. here in orange county everyone has been able to vote. not the case everywhere else in california. >> we might be waiting a while before final numbers out of california. thank you. let's bring in my panel. the president of the color of change. a racial justice group. republican strategist and political analyst. who keeps the same schedule i do. democratic strategist and senior adviser to clintons to 16 campaign. and senior political analyst. senior writer at rolling stone. and former white house aide

during obama. welcome to you all. i hope you had your version of wheatties and a nap. i want to ask about the one thing i haven't talked about. the quick mention of american somoa. bloomberg didn't make the 15% threshold in most states. however else you want to evaluate the night this has been a flop nor bloomberg. when is he out of the race? >> it seems like he's remaining defiant. it seems like from the earlier rhetoric he wants to fight on and continue to press his millions into the race. it seems like elizabeth warren though she did considerable damage to him it seems like she wasn't the beneficiary of the damage. it seems like joe biden was the beneficiary of that. certainly in texas and states like california we see that the voters who might have chosen

bloomberg seems to have shifted biden's way. even in massachusetts they shifted biden's way than sanders way or bloomberg or moderates way. over all consolidation we saw in the democratic party in the recent days plus the shift away from warren or some other candidates certainly isn't helping bloomberg. i think he's going to shift more money into ads. i don't see how it will help him. >> this was the actual test. talking about elizabeth warren. she didn't win her own state of massachusetts. she may have been the person who threw bloomberg out of a high story window. in this campaign. she is not getting the benefit of it. what does she do? >> her path is unclear. he says she's going to be in it to win it. she's staying in.

it's hard to imagine a path forward particularly as we move past the super tuesday states. into later in march. she didn't actually win her own state she is committed clearly to the progressive platform. and so she's attracting from sanders. but she's saying she'll go all the way to a brokered convention if necessary and that gives you leverage at that convention. there are delegates to win. it's a question about whether or not voters will stick with her when they see moment behind sanders and vice president biden. >> what do you make of tonight? >> i have never seen anything like it in 25 years working in national politics. anything like this. where joe biden was even four days ago before the south carolina primary. the fact that people were counting him out and i was one

of them. jim clyburn and we have seen tonight the reenforcement of ab endorsement and what it can mean. clyburn should have what any job he wants in the biden administration. >> it should appear in wikipedia next to endorsement. >> clyburn biden administration. >> so powerful. what you are seeing is warning sign people started to make when sanders really did well in the first three states. a lot of the establishment democrats moderate wing of the party came forward and said he's about to win this. he's about to win super tuesday and take the nomination from there. you saw a real urgency around the moderate candidate. the endorsement last night is huge. the great breakers a significant majority went for joe biden. i have never seen anything like this. this defied what a lot of us

expected to happen. >> it's so interesting. we were together on the south carolina night. everybody had talked about south carolina being joe biden's firewall. and looked like it was falling apart. because bloomberg was making so many inroads among african-americans. in the end joe biden did what we all originally thought he was going to do in south carolina. it came through for him and reenergizes him campaign. >> i think bloomberg helped biden. maybe more than some of the antibern antibernie sentiment. people got scared about the idea of bloomberg. and folks who were antibiden got sort of this taste of bloomberg coming in and being like well, anyone but bloomberg. and biden became less of a

problem. a lot of consolidation the folks the moderate folks in this race for a long time also didn't want bloomberg coming in and spending all this money. who wasn't actually a democrat. in some ways there was an energy from the right. bloomberg. and the left that had people consolidating. black folks in the south have had to be reduction voters and make a choice between sort of not just the aspiration of the big change but also just having to deal with the fact that crisis is around the corner. and so we praise black women on the left when they came in and stood up and pushed back against roy moore winning. it wasn't a progressive victory. it was a progressive win. we do have to recognize that black women in the south and black people in the south they want to beat trump. a will the of the late breaking was about who did people think

could beat trump. >> what folks liked about bloomberg and what was appealing was he's going to be the guy that can beat down trump. he had the twitter game down and focusing energy there. for a while in early debates it wasn't looking like joe biden was that guy. >> that's right. what happened being pragmatic voters that you saw people of color saying wait, biden may not be able to pull through. so when all of a sudden he had a victory. we can fall in love all over again. it was all good news. they could get behind it. the message was there. the other thing from this is bernie sanders didn't do much more than 30%. he didn't do as well as in other states in 2016. and people should be who are for joe biden should be very thankful for elizabeth warren for staying in the race for as long as possible.

she keeps him from hitting above 30, 3035%. that will make a big difference for joe biden. >> you're the guy i never have a specific question for. i want to sit next to and say what do you think happened tonight? >> we saw the massive consolidation. as everyone else has seen. a will the of movement behind joe biden. he's still putting together to some degree what had been the clinton coalition in the last democratic primary. by this time last time around she actually had a much broader and deeper coalition. he is working to put that together even after this huge consolidation. he doesn't have the kind of consolidated african-american support she did. he wins 72% in alabama among african-americans. she won 91%. 60% in south carolina. she won 84%. he was dealing with a more

fractured primary electorate. there's work to be done there. younger african-americans voting with sanders. there is work to be done. on the other hand sanders is isn't expanding his coalition in the way he needs to be doing. there's a lot of race still to be run. between the two candidates and i'm interested to see whether sanders ever figures out how to welcome new people into his coalition. i'm interested to see if joe biden is able on a debate stage with sanders to handle two hour long debate with sanders making those contrasts. he's been able to hide a bit with a multi-candidate debate and have shorter answers. >> anybody who thought the night shift was going to be quiet and boring. you're in for a surprise. stay with me. we have a slew of exit polls. we have exit polls. what do they tell us about biden's big night. one telling statistic is

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donald trump what you're doing is counter productive. we ran all the way through in 2016 prior. you had a voice in the 2020 primary. you raised money. our most important constituents in the party. we have to deal with that and we have to get on the business of november. they live in a world and have to go forward in the world. i'm saying this. the world they'll live in after tonight is a different world than yesterday. >> james car ville earlier tonight hailing biden's big night. data shows late voters breaking heavily for joe biden. over a quarter of all super tuesday voters decided who to support only in the last few days. of those of the late deciders, 48% voted for the former vice president. after former leading democratic

presidential candidate beto o'rourke through support to joe biden in the last couple days. my guests are back with me. i want to ask you what you thought the effect was of the major endorsements over the last 48 hours of joe biden. do you think the supporters of klobuchar, of pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke. who has a remarkable following in texas. did they did what their candidate said and went for biden? >> it seems like it had an effect. within the suburban corridor within texas. certainly within harris county in particular. a big shift towards biden. i want to address something we saw james car ville say. talking about the most important constituents within the democratic party shifted towards biden. i just think we need to be careful with how we address the

language. we're going forward here. we need to make sure that we talk about the people who voted here everybody is important. if the party will come together here, everybody has to be voting against trump. we have to really talk about everybody being important. young black people really support sanders here. and they're important as well. we have to talk about bringing them into the fold and biden has to think about a strategy to attract them and bring them into his camp. >> it becomes complicated. they all have the same speech. build a broad coalition i'm the one to do it. maybe it's possible that a number of them are the ones to do it. just saying you're building a broad coalition doesn't a broad coalition make. >> for example sanders says he's building a multi-racial

multi-generational coalition. when you see the the states that have been swept for joe biden those states have significant african-american population. everywhere from alabama 26%. north carolina 21%. virginia 19%. there's something to be said that bernie is not making enough of an inroads in communities of color and specifically -- he's doing well with the latino population. he's not gaining traction in the african-american community. it's important to recognize and acknowledge. i think it's important to acknowledge the african-american voters typically are more moderate and position. what we're seeing is somewhat of an exist ten shl debate between revolution and return to normalcy. african-american voters are catapulting joe biden to the lead because of the interest to protecting the obama biden

legacy. and ensure that there's a candidate who is going to beat trump. >> normalcy. i didn't think it would have such a pull to it. the delegate count as we have it now. we don't have california yet. it's 416 biden 319 sanders. one of them will have a plurality. it will be closer than bethought. the town hall last week and last debate, bernie sanders has commented on the fact the candidate with the plurality is the one everybody should support if there's a contested convention. >> if i or anybody else goes into the democratic convention with a substantial plurality. i believe that individual me or anybody else should be the candidate of the democratic party. if one candidate comes out on top to say to the country you voted for that candidate.

by the way we don't think that candidate should be the nominee. i think that will be a serious, serious problem. for the democratic party. >> that made a lot of sense when he was obviously the candidate who would have the substantial plurty doing in. tonight that's in doubt. >> substantial is the word there. >> he may -- we don't know what will happen over the next few months. bernie sanders may end up regretting those words. like he probably regrets having discussed the possibility of super-delegates changing the out come in 2016. as he may regret agreed to the rules that the democratic party currently has. he had a lot of different positions and what bernie sanders is wants for is bernie sanders to be the nominee of the democratic party. whatever rules can get him there

he'll support. none of the rules ta have been discussed or have been in place have gotten him there. >> he's the only one who had a say in making those rules. which is an interesting thing. he's trying to go back on the rules he help create. biden didn't have a say in it. warren didn't have a say. bloomberg didn't. there he is having the influence and had influence over a lot of states and he's trying to change it. that sends such a bad message. if it's 49.8% it will be hard to overturn. what we're seeing tonight he's having a hard time getting 35. >> there's something that democrats do have to be concerned about. i see the numbers around african-americans and how they are tracking towards biden. someone who spins a lot of time turning out african-american voters. whether it's district attorney races and senate race ands the presidency in 16.

part is the primary election people will turn out no matter what. the people turn out every election. the general election we have to expand the base. we call them low propensity voters. who only voted for obama and. >> bernie gets some of them. >> we have to get paid. stay with me for a second. quite a scene across parts of the country with long voting lines in key states. california and texas. one of the story lines the obama coalition. how has the obama coalition boosted the fortunes of joe biden. after the break.

we're back with the special coverage of super tuesday. results we're going all night long into the morning. our team across the country is here as results pour in. a big night for joe biden. projected winner of the majority of the states tonight. bernie sanders confident tonight as well projected to win three states. we have a lot to learn however. here's where we stand. biden projected to win nine states. texas, massachusetts, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, alabama, and minnesota. sanders projected to take three states. utah, colorado and his home state of vermont. bloomberg is the projected winner in american samoa.

one state the biggest one of the nilgt hasn't been decided. california is too early to call. 39% of the vote counted. sanders leading there. maine is too close to call. joe biden is leading there. most of the votes are in. it is close. here's where the delegates count stands. biden has 416. sanders has 319. biden and sanders both struck triumph notes tonight. >> it's a good night. it seems to be getting better. that don't call it super tuesday for nothing. >> when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn't be done. >> just a few days ago the press declared the campaign dead.

>> tonight i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination. >> we were told when we got to super tuesday it would be over. it maybe over for the other guy. >> and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. >> make no mistake about it. this campaign will send donald trump packing. >> as biden told supporters they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. he's racking up wins across a number of states proving he can do well in the south, northeast and the west. his spokesperson says he's the only candidate who can rebuild the obama coalition of energized

voters. >> i do think if you look at results tonight there's one candidate in the race who can build the obama coalition and bring out the voters we have to bring out to beat trump. in the fall. you saw that joe biden brought them out in near record numbers. in a lot of places across the country. an incredible surge of support and voters turning out to vote for biden. at levels higher than 2016. that's important. we need the voters to beat trump in the fall. >> i want to correct the in your opinions on the delegate count. sanders is at 320. the california numbers have not been added in to the count tonight. at the moment joe biden is leading. we don't know where california is. it's 416 to 320. you worked in the obama administration. we were talking about the obama coalition or at least a coalition.

who builds the best coalition to get the greatest voter turn out as sanders likes to say. or the coalition to defeat trump. is tonight some indication of how well joe biden is doing or is how much work remains to be done? >> it's an indication of how well joe biden is doing. with one caveat. i don't think it's about just joe biden. i think that joe biden standing next to amy klobuchar and mayor pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke. that was a turning point as well. the slingshot from south carolina but also the consolidation or the restoration of the democratic party all standing on the stage together with the exception of sanders. whether or not some people would challenge whether or not he's squarely a democrat if not a democratic socialist. the point being we are seeing the party come together around

joe biden. and that is part of the coalition that energizes folks who are from the obama biden space. i will one last point is that i wasn't just in the obama administration i was also a campaigner. so for some for me this super tuesday is i still have trama from that. from 22 states voting on super tuesday in 2008. it is a tough tough night. and tonight was electric for joe biden. >> no kidding. let's talk about let's continue the conversation what joe biden has to do so this just wasn't a lucky night. the map as steve was showing earlier tonight. the map does favor joe biden. in states going forward. if this was not sanders big night he has an uphill battle. joe biden has work to do as well. there's hillary clinton out there. and sanders supporters who may as you were saying may not want to vote for joe biden.

what does he have to do? >> first of all we have to keep in mind it's a resounding incredible night from joe biden. we have 40% of the delegates. we have a long ways to go. secondly, it is clear from tonight that this is going to be a long few months. unless somebody hits 1991. you were automatically the nominee. you can't go and super-delegates don't have a role etc. joe biden needs president obama to come out and endorse him. he needs to have to show the most popular democrat in the party is coming out. who he served as vice president for eight years. and has a lot of work to do in the actual campaign infrastructure. i spend a lot of time in the early states. all four of them. a lot of friends who flew in from washington d.c. and people who lived in states were

knocking on doors and offices with limited pack kets. didn't have actually walk lists that they thought were worthy of their time. i had a friend who went to the des moines field office and given eight doors to knock on. when he flew in from washington and had five hours to knock on doors. they have work to do. the good news is there's a lot of talent that came off good campaigns that have joe biden can raise the money which i think now he will, he can hire the people and build out the infrastructure. >> the money came in after south carolina. he's had the best week of his entire campaign. we'll take a quick break. what about bloomberg and where his campaign goes from here. we'll talk about that.

my fellow candidates spent a

year focusing on the first four states i was out campaigning against donald trump in the states where the election will actually be decided. wisconsin and michigan and pittsburg and ohio. and north carolina. and of course florida. president obama proved that a democrat can win all of those states. but in 2016 we lost them all. i'm running to win them back. >> all right despite the promises to win back red states. bloomberg is changing his tune. he's reassessing whether to stay in the race after a disappointing super tuesday performance. following the bloomberg campaign just actually flew if directly from florida. what are you getting from the campaign? >> tonight was not the night the bloomberg campaign was expecting after spending almost half a billion dollars in this campaign. over the last 12 weeks. we're hearing my colleague and i

are hearing there will be a reassessment meeting with senior advisers and bloomberg tomorrow morning to talk about next steps. i covered bloomberg in florida obviously not a super tuesday state. just this morning he said he's at mant he had no intention of dropping out and only sees a contested convention as the path forward. he only earned about 17 delegates here tonight and the only state he won was american samoa. there's confusion about what this means in terms of tomorrow. publicly there are plans to move forward. he has trips to pennsylvania, michigan and florida. and invested in ad spending. about 2 million just in florida. publicly they are looking to move forward. obviously there's serious talk about whether bloomberg will get out of the race to support joe biden tomorrow morning. >> my old friend, you're doing a great job.

thank you. john allen, what's your take? >> he wants to be the resident commissioner from american samoa. i think there's an opportunity if he wants to listen to his advisers to get out of the race with some dignity. with basically the rational he got into it. he was concerned that joe biden wasn't going to be able to pull it off. concerned that sanders or elizabeth warren was going to come in and knock the hell out of wall street. and basically have what he likes -- present sanders as a socialist communist whatever he throws at him. and now he sees joe biden being strong and can get out now. >> to your point the polls when he got in november the board looked like. it was drastically changing. elizabeth warren was doing very

well. bernie sanders was really starting to take off. it was a scary time for some democrats and he thought maybe i can go in. as much as bloomberg goes in on spending money. he doesn't like spending his money foolishly. if there is no path, i don't think he'll go on as a vanity project. >> i think that i don't know if bloomberg -- part of the calculation he didn't want sanders and elizabeth warren to move forward. i don't know if this proves he thinks that biden is a good candidate still. to go up against trump. part of his calculation is he could go up against trump a billionaire against a billionaire. a real billionaire. against a fake billionaire. someone who is made his money vs. somebody given money. i think he probably has questions just because some folks have consolidated about biden doesn't mean the under lying things that people were concerned about around biden's

performance during the debate and inability at times to string together sentences. that those things are still there. and biden and bernie sort of head to head match for several hours is going to reveal some things and i think this is far from over. and we will have several more months of this process. >> joe biden boost and what endorsements may have done to help him the most.

if this continues, throughout this campaign, the speech making the biden is doing the fund raising taking place. and the kind of roll outs the organization that i saw last night he is going to be very successful and will be our nominee and i really deeply feel he will be the next president of the united states. >> clyburn. a lot of people think he did for joe biden. in south carolina. endorsements appear to be key for the biden campaign. he hadn't won any state a week ago. and then congressman clyburn endorse m. he won south carolina. and subsequently raised $5 million more.

and endorsements from buttigieg, klobuchar and o'rourke. racking up the endorsements. we are in l.a. tonight where joe biden spoke and gave a very energized speech. >> that's right. the only word i can think of to describe the last 72 hours the last 96 hours is whiplash. it really has been a moment for this campaign where they knew they were going to do well in south carolina. but given the losses in iowa and new hampshire. coming in second in nevada. they were cautiously optimistic. tiptoeing mo tiptoeing moving forward. after jim clyburn. winning south carolina and today being around staffers seeing them completely surprised with the wins in massachusetts, in texas. that is something they were not necessarily expecting. they knew they could get close.

maybe finish second, third place. and win in other states like virginia, north carolina. but this was really a moment that really not only took staff off their feet but these moments surprised even the reporters covering him for several months. one thing i want to note is covering biden for the last ten months he had only had rallies in california, texas, and north carolina. once in 2019. even then you can feel that super-tuesday states welcomed him differently. much more enthusiasm. the crowd looked different. there were younger people there. there was -- it was a different energy. it seems like biden has had natural support in these groups and you saw that come out obviously with the help of many of the endorsers in the last 24 hours.

that really must have helped him push him over the enl in some states -- edge in some states. >> talk about south carolina. we always thought it was a good place for -- i'm sorry. is she with us? let me ask you about this. we always thought joe biden if he was going to do well was going to do well in south carolina. questions whether he would after the first few states. how big a deal was clyburn and the endorsements he got there vs. the fact it was a safe space for joe biden. >> of course he didn't have a chance to campaign in virginia or a chance to campaign very hard in north carolina. and or even in alabama. you saw those endorsements actually help to repel him towar towards victory.

endorsements of doug jones in alabama. let's not forget that the endorsements reflect a little bit of an indicator about what joe biden can mean for the down ballot races in the states. i think that recognizing he didn't have the wind at his back until south carolina. he didn't have the fund raising numbers the poll before south carolina to be on the media and all the states. those endorsements were critical to turning the page for joe biden. >> all right. thank you for that. a big thank you to my guests. we'll be back in a moment and run through the super tuesday results so far and where the race is too close to call. a big portion of the speeches by joe biden and bernie sanders. long lines and a lot of questions. why so many had to wait hours just to cast their vote.

welcome back to the special coverage of super tuesday.

in new york. it is 3:00 a.m. in the east. midnight out west. we're live all night here. across the country most of the polls are now closed. there's big news on this super tuesday. in this roller coaster 2020 democratic race. race, joe bide reenergized campaign is defying expectations, bolstered by the latest win in texas. he's won the majority of elections on this super tuesday. >> for those that have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign! [ applause ] just a few days ago, the press and the pundits declared the campaign dead. and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. and we were told when you get to super tuesday, it will be over. it may be over for the other guy. folks, we can do this.

let's get something straight, wall street didn't build this country, you built this country! the middle class built this country. and unions built the middle class. look, our campaign reflects the diversity of this party and this nation. and that's how it should be. because we need to bring everybody along, everybody. we want a nominee who will beat donald trump. but also, also keep nancy pelosi the speaker of the house. win back the united states senate. if that's what you want, join us. and if you want a nominee who is a democrat, a life-long democrat, a proud democrat, an obama-biden democrat, join us! >> and from his home state of vermont, senator bernie sanders projecting with "absolute

confidence that he will win the democratic nomination." >> when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn't be done! but tonight, i tell you, with absolute confidence, we are going to win the democratic nomination. [ applause ] and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. no matter what happens, if this campaign, and i don't know what will happen, but if it comes out to be a campaign in which we have one candidate who is standing up for the working class and the middle class, we're going to win that election. [ applause ]

and if we have another candidate who has received contributions from at least 60 billionaires, we're going to win that election. [ crowd booing ] and if there is another candidate in the race who is spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, we're going to tell him in america, you cannot buy elections. >> let's take a look at what the results look like from across the country right now. we are looking at california, which is still too early to call. only 41% of the vote has been counted at the moment bernie sanders is in the lead. in maine, still too close to call. very close race between the two candidates with 91% in. in texas, joe biden is the projected winner. 40 of the 20 delegates so far have been allocated to him. north carolina, joe biden 57 delegates there so far.

moving to virginia, joe biden wins in virginia, 64 delegates of the 99 are award eed joe bid. in alabama, joe biden wins 34 of the 52 delegates. in tennessee, he's the winner that state, as well. same thing in arkansas. 13 of the 31 delegates in that state. and in massachusetts, the home state of elizabeth warren, 30 delegates out of the 91 there. bernie sanders came in second, elizabeth warren coming in third in her own state. in minnesota, joe biden has won there, 35 of the delegates awarded to him. and in vermont, that is bernie sanders' home state, he wins there with ten of the 16 delegates. colorado, bernie sanders wins in colorado with 17 delegates awarded out of the 67 there. and in utah, bernie sanders is the winner. he gets 9 of the 29 delegates there.

oklahoma, joe biden wins 18 of the 37 delegates in that state. and in american samoa, the only win tonight for michael bloomberg, four of the delegates awarded. tulsi gabbard has taken a delegate there, as well. michael bloomberg has won a few delegates in a few other states bringing him to 17. the real contest, joe biden and bernie sanders. this is without california delegates allotted. joe biden is in there the lead there with 419. let's bring in rashard robinson, david lit, adrian elrod, lauren leader joins us, and in los angeles, david ciders, senior reporter, and in d.c., elena beverly, former white house

aide. david, let's tart with you and your read on how things -- i'm sorry, i have two davids. let's start with david in l.a. >> i think you have to look at this as a great night for biden, obviously. this was the night that was supposed to be bernie sanders' map. everything seemed to be lined up pretty well for him. instead we saw the biden campaign proving the thresis thy put forward, the south carolina momentum would carry. in fact, it did and it went further than their campaign expected. those wins in minnesota and texas, at least the minnesota win was a stunner. and the texas win also qualifies as an upset. so clearly a good night for biden ohhenbide biden on a map that should have favored sanders more. >> future races are looking like they would favor biden naturally. david, you sometimes come up with jokes. is there a joke in this

somewhere? >> yoi don't know if there's a joke. i was going to say, if you're looking for the joke somewhere, they are mostly found in american samoa at the moment. it's a remarkable thing, the sheer amount per delegate that michael bloomberg has spent. it's going to these couple of delegates from american samoa. >> what happens to him do you think? >> i don't see a path for michael bloomberg. i any he made a strong case, and i mean this almost entirely sincerely, he is a really smart guy when it comes to spending money in politics and figuring out how to get results. a lot of democrats in 2018 who won had mike bloomberg backing their campaigns. as a party, we want him in our corner, but from behind the scenes. i think that's where he will return and he can do a lot of

good for the country. >> lauren, what do you think about tonight in >> obviously, an amazing night. one, we did polling last week that showed a huge majority of moderate voters were still undecided and struggling with their decision, which has been reflected in the polls. the second, the field sort of cleared over the last 36 hours and we talked to people in super tuesday states calling it at the last minute. the field cleared and it made it obvious and easy. we can't underestimate the power of suburban women, black women and the win in which they deliver these states for joe biden. that is going to be a huge advantage for him, despite the challenges for him. the blanks there are significant. when you look at how suburban women, black women powered the blue wave of 2018, you look at the senate races, the future of the t draic senate runs through

these red to blue moderate states, kansas, iowa. these are going to be critical. maine now. these are going to be critical places if the democrats are going to pick up the senate. americans were looking at not just who is going to beat donald trump but lead the party. there was a lot of narrative about that, a lot of anxiety whether bernie sanders could support the kind of down ballot candidates in a lot of these red to blues, the former trump districts. so voters resoundingly, particularly women vote who have been the fire wawall against th left leaning bernie momentum, that was a huge factor tonight. >> adrian, this has definitely been joe biden's weakness, the ground game. now as you mentioned, everything has changed. he's getting money now. he's likely to get more that

would have went to other candidates that have dropped out now. we gets to hire more staff. beto o'rourke has a hell of a ground game in texas. how does this look for him? do things materially change for joe biden's ability to get out and make contact with voters? >> yeah. i think so. to the point you mentioned, you've got some of the best democratic talent in politics working with amy klobuchar's campaign, mayor pete buttigieg's campaign, michael halle, who i worked with in 2016, managed all of our battleground resource allegations. he's now a free agent. if i was joe biden, he should hire as many of these people as he can. also, the bloomberg effect. if bloomberg dropped out tomorrow, he could literally channel his entire campaign, flip it to a super pac and run a concerted field operation based

on their very robust -- >> which he has said he would do. >> which he said he would do. so that's going to be a big test. we talk a lot about bloomberg and what he may or may not do. he's very, very focused on his legacy and he's very aware of the fact that the longer he stays, every day is going to potentially hurt joe biden and will affect his legacy. >> i think there are still some gaps in biden's story as it relating to expanding his base. yes, winning a primary is really important and it's something that, you know, you have to do before you can run in a general election. but once you get to the general election, you have to expand beyond -- the thing about the obama coalition that's always -- we should always remember, the obama coalition didn't really work for anyone but obama. it didn't work in 2010, it didn't work in 2016.

it didn't elect anyone when obama wasn't at the top of the ticket. so the question will be, what is biden's 2020 story that tells the story not just about why we don't like trump, but about the aspirational story, what are we going to do, not just what are we going back to, but moving forward to? as i sat with young black people in st. louis and in milwaukee and in detroit, they don't believe a story that is just about incremental change. >> didn't you just tell me last hour that black voters are do no harm? >> i said black voters in the south are do no harm voters, particularly primary voters. i'm talking about older voters. i'm not -- >> you said young black voters are like other voters, >> they want change. young black voters powered this moment around criminal justice, and the reason why there was so much initial push back with stop

and frisk to mayor bloomberg. we can't count that out, given what happened in '16 in places like detroit and milwaukee and philadelphia, the numbers we did not hit among those populations, i just want to make sure that we are not -- that we are telling a fuller story about how we expand that base. >> elena beverly, joe biden tells himself as the obama/biden candidate. and that's not incorrect. and he's giving off the vibe that he's got the obama endor endorsement. how is that working out? >> i'm not sure he's giving off the vibe he has the obama endorsement. he said he didn't want president obama's endorsement because he wanted to win fair and square and didn't want president obama to put his thumb on the scale. i don't think you're going to see president obama endorse anyone. i also don't think he needs to endorse anyone before the

convention. i think he wants to unify the party at the right time, and that time is not coming until the convention. so i take -- i disagree with adrian, who said in the last hour that president obama, former president obama needs to endorse joe biden and endorse him right away. i don't think it's necessary because of those fantastic campaign staffers who i know have flooded the field after leaving -- they left south carolina, they have moved into super tuesday states and they're going to continue to go on throughout this season. we have strong staff. we have momentum. he's going to -- joe biden is going to recruit the funds. so i don't think that he needs president obama's endorsement at this moment. president obama is the most popular and gravitational perp in the democratic person. he's using his powers for good to unite us at the end. and one point about what rashad

said about the african-american vote. so i was the deputy director for african-american engagement for president obama in 2008. i have a lot of folks who i poll on the regular to see how they are feeling about our candidates. you are correct, i completely agree with rashad that the younger -- there's a woke african-american voter who is feeling that -- is feeling the bern, so to speak, and we are going to need to pull them in if joe biden is the candidate. >> everybody, stay with me. we're just getting started. coming up, california was the largest prize on super tuesday for the democratic candidate. what the results from the golden state could foreshadow about this race going forward. ♪

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i do think if you look at the results, there is one candidate in this race who can build the obama coalition, who can bring out the voters that we have to bring out to beat donald trump in the fall. and i think you saw that joe biden brought them out in near record numbers in a lot of maces across the country. you saw an incredible surge of support and of voters turning out to vote for biden. >> one of the most interesting story lines played out this morning, huge lines in california where they just overhauled the election system. they shut the doors at 8:00 local time, but everyone who was

in line got to stay to vote, no matter how late that went, and it went late. some lines had more than 200 people in it, leading some people to report a three-hour wait time to vote. california still one of the states we're waiting for a result. nbc news saying it's too early to call. bernie sanders is lead thing with 42% of the vote in so far. and it's not clear, david, that it's going to get substantially better in the next few hours. this could take a while. there are a lot of reasons california takes a long time to report any way. but in this particular case, this voting delay is exacerbating it. >> this is a really long wait. i just got a text from a dnc member in chico in northern california saying there's still people waiting in line there, and maybe 20 students or more walked away from the polls because they got frustrated. if you're bernie sanders right now trying to run up the delegate score in some of these college up tos, if you hear that

20 people are walking away from a poll in chico, that's going to make that team go ballistic. that's one of the problems here with this late vote going on. >> however, i should point out, there's a good side to all of this. l.a. county is trying to build the voting system of the future, where you go in, it's on your phone and it prints out a ballot. >> i think the whole point about the california results coming so late is really a story about an attempt to enfranchise voters, not disenfranchise them. your vote can count if you postmark it by election day in california. so it's by design that we're not expected to have results for days, in some cases weeks. >> david, i spoke to the secretary of state of california earlier today. he thought we would have a lot of results in tonight, but i don't think we're going to get a call on it tonight. that's going to make all the difference. but there is -- the battle for the generational conversation,

which we were just having in the commercial break, that's really going to play out in california. there are a lot of young voters out there, and waiting to see where they go is going to be determinative. >> absolutely. when you see these long lines, especially on college campuses, this is an important wakeup to all americans, not just democrats. we talk about election security, but election convenience is also important. in the 2012 election, if you were a nonwhite voter, you were six times more likely than a white voter to wait an hour or more. this stuff is not new, it's happening all the time. and it makes me really angry, because mitch mcconnell calls nonvoters political couch potatoes. that ice his term of art, right? and we're talking about college kids who have waited for hours and are leaving because they can't wait any more.

they are trying to hard to exercise their rights and in all these cases you have to make the process work so people have that good experience the first time and they come back year after year. >> hourly workers, this is a huge issue. i would encourage everybody that waited in a line in texas or california to call or right their state legislator. because in california, you only get two hours paid time off by law. that means folks that are hourly workers or don't have employers, do not give additional paid time off beyond the state statues. everybody that waited in a line needs to get active, that is a huge issue in terms of voter participation. to your point before about younger voters, look, the point is, both bernie and biden have the same issue, which is trying to unite a very big tent that has a lot of extremes and

diversity. it's the magic of the democratic party that is so diverse, but it's difficult to find one unifying figure in one moment and it is different. it's going to be hard for both of them. the question is, who has the better advantage going into that effort in and in some ways, it's going to depend on who will be the reliable turnout? it seems like tonight it has skewed towards old effort, suburban voters. those are folks that are easier for biden to keep than bernie to attract. >> we'll take a quick break. david, we appreciate you joining us. everybody else, please stick around. coming up, much more on the results of super tuesday. but first, in recent weeks, many thought joe biden's campaign was on life support, but after last night and saturday in south carolina, he says his campaign is alive and well. here is some of his speech tonight. >> they don't call it super tuesday for nothing!

by the way, this is my little sister, valerie. and i'm jill's husband. you switched on me. this is my wife, this is my sister. they switched on me. folks, things are looking awful, awful good. for those that have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign! just a few days ago, the press and the pundits declared the campaign dead. and then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. and we were told when you get to super tuesday, it would be over. well, it may be over for the other guy!

tell that to the folks in virginia, north carolina, alabama, tennessee, oklahoma, arkansas, minnesota! and maybe even massachusetts. it's too close to call. we're still waiting for texas and california and a few other small states to come in. but it's looking good. so i'm here to report, we are very much alive! [ cheers and applause ] and make no mistake about it, this campaign will send donald trump packing! this campaign is taking off. join us! for those folks looking, go to joebiden.com, sign up, we need

you, we want you and there's a place in this campaign. our agenda is bold, it's progressive, it's a vision, where health care is affordable and available to everybody in america. big drug prices out of control and access to hospitals in rural areas. access to care. a bold vision, we're going to invest billions for cures for cancer. alzheimer's and diabetes. standing up to the nra and the gun manufacturers. and leading the world to take on the existential threat of climate change. i'm going to start by joining the paris climate accord and we're going to move it a long way. a country where the quality of education will not depend on

your zip code. funding for low income school districts, providing funding for teachers. providing school for 3, 4, and 5-year-olds. and increasing the prospects of their success. and significant reduction in the cost of going to college and your student debt. if you volunteer, you pay nothing. folks, we can do this! let's get something straight, wall street didn't build this country, you built this country. the middle class built this country. and unions built the middle class! we won minnesota because of amy klobuchar. and we're doing well in texas because of beto o'rourke.

and that's why i was so proud, so incredibly proud to have mayor pete's endorsement, as well. there's the man of character and courage. and i was proud to be endorsed by jim clyburn, man, he is something else. look, our campaign reflects the diversity of this party and this nation. and that's how it should be. because we need to bring everybody along, everybody! we want a nominee who will beat donald trump. but also, also keep nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. win back the united states senate. if that's what you want, join us. if you want a nominee who is a democrat, a life-long democrat, a proud democrat, an obama-biden

democrat, join us! look, this all starts with the rh revival of decency, honor, and character. president trump has fanned the flames of hate and sought to divide us. he's insulted, demonized, and actually just the way he talks about people. he has not a single sense of empathy. he doesn't have any compassion. no regard for the values that made this country who we are. not the way you were raised by your moms and dads. he looks at honesty and decency and respect and views it as a sign of weakness. he doesn't believe we're the baek beacon of the world and we're all part of something bigger than ourselves. that's why i said from the moment i announced this candidacy, we're fighting in a

battle for the soul of america. folks, winning means uniting america, not sewing seeds of division of anger and hate. we have to beat president trump, but we can't become like him. we can't have a never ending war between the parties. we need a president who can fight, but make no mistake about it, i can fight. but look, we need this badly. someone who can heal. look, what we did when we passed obamacare, but it's not enough. this is just a start. we need a president who can heal the country, as well. and that is what i will do as your president. i promise you that. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow

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it is wednesday morning and our coverage continues. we have a lot of ground to cover today. two states that do not have results yet. in california, the race is still too early to call. bernie sanders leading in california, but as you can see in the top corner, only 42% of the vote is in right now. and don't hold your breath, this one may take a while. in maine, it is too close to call. biden is leading there, we have

91% of the vote, so here we're just looking for the last through votes. a huge night for joe biden, projected to win in nine states. texas, massachusetts, virginia, north carolina, tennessee, arkansas, oklahoma, alabama, and minnesota. bernie sanders projected to take three states, utah, colorado, and rermt. -- and vermont. michael bloomberg has won in the american territory of samoa, his only straight-up victory tonight. elizabeth warren won no contests on super tuesday, including in her home state of massachusetts. here's where the delegate count stands right now. this does not include california. joe biden is at 433, bernie sanders at 341. both sanders and biden are confident moving forward. >> i tell you with absolute confidence, we are going to win the democratic nomination.

and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. >> i'm here to report that we are very much alive! and make no mistake about it, this campaign will send donald trump packing! this campaign is taking off, join us! >> all right. we'll talk about an nbc news exit poll that shows 1 in 7 voters will not pledge to support the democratic nominee, when we come back. ack.

new concerns about what will happen to bernie sanders voters if he will lose the nomination. one in seven suggest they might not vote for the democrat ek candidate in november.

jameel smith is with me now. what do you think of this? >> i make of it that if joe biden is the nominee, he has some proving to do to these folks who have doubts in him. he has to do a lot more than brag about the diversity that he has around him, as he was doing tonight in his speech. i think that's talk that you might hear from someone back in the '80s who is proud of the racial coalition they might have around them. he's got to talk about the policies that he has, you know, in his platform. policies that these folks may be demanding more of from him. he's got to talk about his climate plan, his plans for racial justice that go beyond criminal justice. these are things that young people in particular are really interested in, and frankly demanding of. and he's got to get not just sanders' voters, but think about the warren voters that may be up for the taking.

so he's really got to think about talking about not who is just endorsing him, but who he might be able to win over. >> it's kind of interesting hearing this all, particularly from bernie sanders supporters. because if you're all into that much policy, elizabeth warren would have been your candidate. neither bernie sanders nor joe biden give you as much policy as elizabeth warren does. >> in fairness, both have this long-term advantage of having been in the field so long, so that was always a disadvantage for her. i don't know how much it was like he's really the better choice. there was a lot of momentum behind bernie after years of ground game and devotion to him. the point that jameel made is right, that the same point is going to be true the other way around, which is there are a tremendous number of voters, moderate voters who really are not comfortable with the idea of sanders as the nominee and are -- that was part of the momentum that we saw going into

super tuesday. you know, this question is, is the democratic party really ultimately as nancy pelosi said more center left opposed to the left leaning. we were talking about one of the bellwether races in texas, the democrat running against an incumbent democrat, very high profile race, very supported on the left by aoc. she lost tonight. i think that tells you something, maybe, about who is turning out and where the grumd -- where the center of gravity really is. super tuesday results indicate the center may not be as far to the left as we ault thought. >> hang tight. next tuesday, another slew of state also head to the polls. but first, yesterday's contest have significantly changed the delegate map in this democratic race. bernie sanders remains confident. here's some of his speech from last night. >> thank you, vermont!

you know, it's a funny thing. 31 years ago today, we won the mayoral race in burlington, vermont. [ applause ] and we won that race against all of the odds. everybody said it couldn't be done. and when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn't be done. but tonight, i tell you with absolute confidence, we are going to win the democratic nomination.

and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. we are going to win -- [ crowd chanting "bernie" ] >> we are going to defeat president trump because we are putting together an unprecedented, grassroots, multigenerational, multiracial movement! [ applause ] it is a movement which speaks to the working families of this country, who are sick and tired of working longer hours for

lower wages and seeing all new income and wealth going to the top 1%. it is a movement which says the united states will have health care for all as a human right. it is a movement that says we will bring mayor reforms in education making sure that all of our kids can go to college without coming out in debt. now, what makes this movement unique is we are taking on the corporate establishment.

we are taking on the greed of wall street. the greed of the drug companies who charge us the highest prices in the world! the greed of the insurance companies. and given the existential crisis of climate change, we are saying to the fossil fuel industry, we are saying to the fossil fuel industry their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our country and the world. but we are not only taking on the corporate establishment, we're taking on the political establishment.

but we're going to win because the people understand it is our campaign, our movement, which is best positioned to [ applause ] we need a movement of black white, asian, latino, gay and straight. of people who are making it clear every day, they will not tolerate the grotesque level of income in wealth inequality we are experiencing. we will not give tax breaks to billionaires when 500,000

americans sleep out on the streets. we will not allow 49% of all new income to go to the 1%, when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. so i am excited about where we are. we have come a long, long way. and i want to, once again, thank the great state of vermont and all of the people in the state. not only for the victory you gave our movement tonight, but for the years and years of love and support, you have given me and my family. [ applause ]

so vermont, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you all very much. let's go on to the white house! thank you!

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all right. this may be the super tuesday that changed the course of the 2020 presidential race, but there are a number of contests that could again swing the fate of the remaining five democratic candidates. for one, former new york mayor michael bloomberg, his path could alter today. nbc news is reporting his team will reassess his candidacy in the coming hours. if it doesn't end here, march 10th, another 516 delegates allocated, and two weeks from tonight, 663 of them. let's bring in our panel for their final comments. area knejameel smith, joe bidene positive road ahead of him if this night didn't go well for him. >> if we see him coast over the next couple of weeks, he has a more favorable schedule going through the midwest and some mountain states. i think what we need to see is how he's going to win of parts

of the electorate in the democratic party who don't actually already favor him. how is he going to win of those younger voters, who favor sanders or warren or who don't already vet for him. >> elena beverly, your thoughts? >> march 10, we have my home state of michigan coming up, and i think it's going to put joe biden's momentum to the test. you know, he's leading in the polls, but it's a state that bernie won in 2016 over hillary clinton by just one point. i think it will test the momentum and also his ability to pivot from just the crisis of being behind to now the collective of the democratic party. >> laura? >> it's a mobilization game now. it's time for voters to volunteer, give money to the candidates they believe in, especially in the states that haven't voted yet. this is going to be a hotly contested primary until -- for a while. and the winner ultimately is going to be the one who gets

out, the volunteers, the army of people willing to work for them. >> big night for joe biden. he's turned around his campaign. we've got 60% of the delegates left, and joe biden has to figure out how to try to siphon out some of the bernie sanders coalition to win this thing, and bernie sanders has to figure out how to grow his coalition beyond 30%. >> david? >> the most important thing to think about here, voters hate a coronation and love comeback. no matter who the nominee is, it's an amazing comeback story. it's a good night for democrats. >> rashad? >> president trump is really good at rewarding his base, from south carolina to today that black voters have saved joe biden's campaign. the question is, what does joe biden do? what does he offer up to black communities and black folks from a structural -- who brought his campaign back? we are not just voters, we are people, we are communities and we need more. >> we shall end it there. big thank you to all of our

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and now, save up to $600 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. only for a limited time. good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, march 4th. let's get right to the results from super tuesday. it was a stunning night for joe biden. the former vice president swept the south. the projected winner in nine states in all with landslide victories in alabama, virginia, north carolina, arkansas, tennessee and oklahoma. he also won minnesota, the delegate-rich state of texas as well. and elizabeth warren's home state of massachusetts. where she came in third behind bernie sanders. now sanders won his